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Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Safety and Health Management Arrangements

29. Workplace safety and health committees

(1)

Every workplace within the prescribed class or description of workplaces must have appointed in respect thereof a workplace safety and health committee.

(2)

Every workplace safety and health committee of a workplace must comprise representatives of employees of the workplace as well as employers.

(3)

The functions of a workplace safety and health committee appointed in respect of a workplace are —

(a)

to keep under review circumstances in the workplace which affect or may affect the safety or health of persons in the workplace;

(b)

to promote cooperation between management and employees in achieving and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions;

(c)

to carry out from time to time inspections of the scene of any accident or dangerous occurrence in the interests of the safety and health of the employees;

(d)

to exercise any other functions and duties as may be prescribed or conferred on the committee under this Act; and

(e)

any other functions as may be prescribed.

(4)

The management must provide such facilities and assistance to the workplace safety and health committee of a workplace as the committee may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out the committee’s functions and duties under this section.

(5)

A workplace safety and health committee has such powers as may be prescribed, being necessary powers for the committee to discharge its functions and duties under this Act.